From: Albert Chou Date: 2003-10-29T07:36:30+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby Download options OS X will only have a compiler if either the Apple Developer Tools have been installed (a free but huge download if necessary) or the user has a third-party compiler installed (though I doubt you'd want to automate using one, such as CodeWarrior). Dunno about zlib, I'm not at home on my Mac. Al -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Carrera [mailto:dcarrera@math.umd.edu] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:33 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: Ruby Download options Alright, good to know. I have mentioned that on the website. This brings up another=20 point: Does Mac OS X have zlib? Does the one-click Windows installer provide zlib? I now that OS X comes with Ruby, but it won't be version 1.8.0, correct? Does OS X=20 come with everything needed to compile Ruby? I imagine it does not. Cheers, Daniel. On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:42:21PM -0600, Lyle Johnson wrote: > Daniel Carrera wrote: >=20 > >Q1: Am I right to assume that Ruby 1.8.0 should provide zlib in all=20 > >platforms? >=20 > Well... The 'zlib' extension module depends on the zlib library=20 > (http://www.gzip.org/zlib) being installed at build time. I think this > is pretty much a given on Linux, but probably not so for other flavors > of Unix (say, Solaris). For those platforms, one would want to first=20 > download and install the zlib library, *then* configure, build and=20 > install Ruby 1.8.0. Otherwise the Ruby build will just skip over the=20 > build and installation of the 'zlib' extension module. --=20 Daniel Carrera | OpenPGP KeyID: 9AF77A88 PhD grad student. |=20 Mathematics Dept. | "To understand recursion, you must first UMD, College Park | understand recursion".